Signal holding device



Aug. 16, 1932. E, ASP QND 1,872,218

SIGNAL HOLDING DEVICE Filed June 30, 1930 IN V EN TOR.

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Gear e Z14 5041/76? Patented Aug. 16, 1932 GEORGE E. 'ASPLUND, OF BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA I SIGNAL HOLDING DEVICE Application filed June 80,

This invention relates to an improved signal holding device adapted to be worn upon the hand'of a chaufi'eur or other person engaged in an occupation in which it is neces- Q sary to use the hand for signaling purposes. An object of the invention is to provide a. simplified holding device adapted to suport in a comfortable, convenient and secure manner upon the hand a double signal element which the driver of an automobile may use to display in such a manner as to be seen readily both from the rear of his vehicle and in front thereof.

A further object of the invention is to reduce to the minimum the amount of material required to form the support for the colored lenses or like signal elements contained within or secured to the device.

Still other objects are to provide an improved elastic feature which will adapt the device more readily to fit both large and small hands; to house and protect a lass signal element in a safer more. depen able manner, and to so shape the a ipliance as a whole that it will conform itsel comfortably to the hand of the person wearing the device.

Other objects, advantages and features of invention may hereinafter appear.

Referring to the accompanying drawing which illustrates what is at present deemed to be a preferred embodiment of the invention Fig. 1 is a rear view of the device, the same s being shown in the operative position upon the hand of the wearer.

Fig. 2 is a transverse section on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a rear view of a modification. Fig. 4 is a view of the developed pattern of the device, I nection being shown at each end thereof. Referring in detail to the drawing, thedevice comprises a band portion/I which is adapted to extend around the hand, the two ends of said band being each secured to an elastic fabric connection 8 by stitching 9. or other preferred-means; 'x m At one side of said band thefe is formed a thumb loop 10, said loop preferably being closely and a fragment of thexelastic con- 1930. Serial No. 464,893.

integral with said band 7 Said loop 10 is ofless width than said band 7, the width. there- .of being only sufiicientto give .it the required strength and to cause it to fit comfortably around the base portion of the thumb.

The band 7, as viewed in transverse sectionin Fig. 2, consists of a front run or portiongl2 nd a rear run or portion 13. This band ma be made of leather or other suitable, flexible, relatively inexpensive material, a single layer of such material preferably bein portions 12 and 13, an annular retaining strip or keeper is provided, such a keeper 15 being attached by stitching 16 to the face of the portion 12, and a like used. In order to attach to the external aces of the keeper 17 being attached by stitching 18 to the outer face of the signal element 20 and.v the keeper 17 is used to retain a like glass signal element 21. These signal elements 20 and 21 are desirably made of red glass and are respectively coated at 22 and 23 over their base portions with mercury or other substance adapting them to reflect a red light.

Each run of the band 7 is enlarged or convexed at each side at 24 in order to, at this point, sufficiently widen the band at each side of the hand so as to enable it to have attached thereto the annular keeper, 15 or 17, which retains the signal lens at that side of the band.

In Fi 3 is shown a modification wherein the ban 25 is composed wholly of an elastic material and the thumb formed and is attached-to said band by means of stitching 27. In this view a keeper 28 is attached to each side of the device to retain the signal lens 29.

shown in Fig. 4, it will. be seen that the thumb loop 10 is located closer to the keeper 15 of the front or 'palmar glass-than it is to the keeper 1? of the other glass. The thumb 1 opening 10a is approximately elliptical in shape and the axis thereof is inclined away from the portion of the device which overlies the palmof the hand. The space between the thumb opening 10 and the palm 8195s opposite band portion 13. The keeper 15 is used to retain a glass loop 26 is separately From the developed view of the device suficient to provide room for comfortable and convenient grasping of the rim of the steerin wheel b the hand of the driver.

e attac g portion of the device 'comrises a substantially inelastic portion havmg a body part to which the signal element is secured and the thumb loop/10 which is shown in Figs. 3 and 4 as integral therewith; and a relatively short elastic portion 8 which completes said band. By this construction a relatively small amount of elastic is used, an advantage thereby being secured because the elastic tends to lengthen under continued use and if a considerable portion of the band were formed of elastic it might not fit properly upon the hand after long use.

I claim:

1. A device of the kind described comprising a band of flexible material adapted to extend around the human hand distal to the thumb, and two light reflecting signal elements secured to the outer side of said band, saidsignal elements being located substantially opposite to each other when the band is in lace upon the hand, said band having a thum loop extension which is located closer to the iront or palmar signal element than it is to the other signal element, said thumb loop extension having an elli tical opening for the thumb the axis of sai opening being inclined away from the portion of the device which overlies the palm of the hand.

2. A device of the kind described comprising a band of flexible material adapted to extend around the human hand distal to the thumb, and two light reflecting signal elements secured to the outer side of said band, said signal elements being located substantiall opposite to each other when the band is in p ace upon the hand said band having a thumb loop extension with an opening therethrough to receive the thumb, and said band having a relatively short elastic portion -which is located approximately opposite to said thumb loop, the remaining portion of the band being substantially inelastic.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature.

' GEORGE E. ASPLUND.

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